Rhino poaching isn’t just a conservation crisis — it’s an assault on South Africa’s soul, economy, and identity. In this ...

Police have arrested three suspected rhino poachers in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). The rhino poachers, aged 34 and 50 years old, ...

In response, this project run by the University of the Witwatersrand is using radiation to support conservation and enforcement efforts. After two years of initial tests, the Rhisotope Project was ...

Three men have been arrested in KwaZulu-Natal for their involvement in a violent poaching incident, where they shot a rhino ...

African rhino populations are increasing despite poaching and habitat loss, new figures from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) show. The new figures, released Thursday ...

South Africa is home to nearly 80 percent of the world's rhinoceroses. But it is also a hotspot for rhino poaching, driven by demand from Asia, where horns are used in traditional medicine for ...

While South Africa has seen a modest decrease in rhino poaching incidents across Kruger in recent years, Eikelboom and his co-author, Herbert Prins, another ecologist at Wageningen University ...

This article is for subscribers only. Rhino poachers have turned their attention to South Africa’s oldest state-run nature reserve where they killed 307 of the endangered animals last year.

Study lead author Dr. Tim Kuiper, of Nelson Mandela University in South Africa, said: “We documented the poaching of 1,985 rhinos - about 6.5% of the population annually - across 11 Greater ...

South Africa today announced its first decrease in rhino poaching since 2007, but this slight improvement was offset by an alarming increase in the number of rhinos killed in neighbouring countries.

Rhino poaching across Africa has risen sharply in the past few years, threatening to reverse hard-won population increases achieved by conservation authorities during the 20th century. The first ...

Last year, a record 448 rhinos were poached in South Africa. Demand for rhino horn among a growing Asian middle class is believed to be driving the poaching spike in South Africa and elsewhere in ...